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  • Artistic Licence
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  By Nadine O’Regan
    The sound of reinvention
    A font of facts, useful and otherwise
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  Reviewed by Helen Boylan
    Did you know that Sharon Stone has a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking and Mozart? Or that the most likely times of the year for relationship break-ups are about a month after Valentine’s Day and two weeks before the winter holidays?
    The Kennedy who asked what his country could do for him
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  Reviewed by Andrew Lynch
    A few months after his inauguration as US president in 1961, John F Kennedy was playing backgammon at the family compound in Hyannis Port with his friend and distant relation, Gore Vidal.
    Making sense of contemporary Ireland
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  Reviewed by Val Nolan
    ‘The talk these days is mostly of emigration, who is leaving, or who has gone, or is thinking about going.” Gerald Dawe wrote those words in 1988, as economic circumstances forced ‘‘well-educated people, with small families or just married’’ out of the country in their thousands.
    Searing prose conveys reality of life under Franco
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
    ‘Where they burn books, they will eventually burn people,” German poet Heinrich Heine wrote in 1821.
    The society beauty and the fascist dictator
    Sunday, March 07, 2010  Reviewed by Dermot Bolger
    History has a way of immortalising people based not just on what they do, but on when they do it.